Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US economy blew past expectations to create 256,000 jobs in December, sending yields on long-term US government debt to the highest level since 2023 and pushing stocks to the lowest point since Donald Trump’s […]
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered a handful of possible galaxies that could be among the earliest to ever exist. Located 13.6 billion light-years away and just 200 million years after the Big Bangthe five galaxy candidates are the earliest ever detected, and likely some of the first to have formed in the […]
Adapted from How to Kill an Asteroid: The Real Science of Planetary Defense by Robin George Andrews. Copyright © 2024 by Robin George Andrews. Used with permission of the publisher, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. It took a few days to be convinced, Rob Wilcock told me, sipping his coffee in […]
